‘Small talk in prison had him as a con man who got rich people to sit in strange boxes that allowed them to make love better.’ That is not too far off the truth. But in the case of Wilhelm Reich it is difficult to decide where deceit ended and self-deception began. Let it serve as his epitaph. Reich was interned in Lewisburg Penitentiary in March 1957 and he died there on 3 November.

Literary Review

Oct 2011

Categories

Robert Irwin

A Jihadist & a Gentleman

Nursed on the Blood of Black Lambs

There Be Despots

Reading Proust in the Empty Quarter

The Real Almasy was a Predatory Homosexual

Knight Fever

Stealing with Style

Eastern Promises

Onward Christian Administrators

Percy of Persia

Consuls & Catwomen

Last of the Moriscos

Onward Christian Soldiers

View from the Minaret

Rancour and Revolt

Return of the Mahdi?

Church Militant

Virgil among the Ottomans